BWBC4/ A digitized copy of yourself at every step of your life is in the output of U, though it make take some searching to find it.
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BWBC5/ With advanced 3d printing technology, we could 3d print the digitized version of you, and it would be indistinguishable from you.
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BWBC6/ So it's clear that you, or a copy of you, lives in program U. Next: variations of program U. I'm just restating the assumption here.
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BWBC7/ Given program U, it's pretty trivial to make a program U' that's mostly the same, but with a few tweeks.
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BWBC8/ For example, imagine program V, which runs Conway's Game of Life arranged to run a computer running program U.
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BWBC9/ Or imagine program W. For this program, at T = now, we'll swap a volume enclosing your building with an equivalent volume on mars.
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BWBC10/ We can add spacesuits, too. After a few hours, we'll synthesize the you from W, and ask them what mars was like.
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BWBC11/ Just to prove that a version of you really experienced that.
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BWBC12/ W is well defined and exists, but hasn't been written down anywhere. It's output exists just like the 10^100th digit of pi exists.
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BWBC13/ There's a real copy of you in W that really does frolic on mars. You must believe this, or that the universe is not computable.
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